Healing the First Nations

A historic agreement to compensate victims of the notorious residential schools system is about to come into effect in Canada.

The First Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Phil Fontaine - himself a survivor of the residential school system - was a key negotiator and he spoke about the settlement when he was in Australia recently.

Three years after 15-year-old Errol Wyles Junior was struck and killed by a hit and run driver in Townsville, a foundation has been set up in his memory.

And a new collaborative youth theatre project brings together artists and residents of The Block in Redfern.